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Obama is First President To Be 3D Printed - Posted June 20, 2014
(NBCNews) A team at the Smithsonian Institution has scanned President Barack Obama to create the first 3D printed portrait of a sitting president. Experts scanned Obama earlier this year using two different processes: a "light stage" face scanner and hand-held 3D scanners and cameras to help build a bust of the... [Inside 3D Printing News]

Livestream: Not Yet Mainstream But Clearly a Game Changer - Posted December 19, 2012
Streaming events in real-time alters the dynamics for event organizers, impacting the scope of the audience, press coverage and sponsorships. Livestream is a key provider of real-time event coverage servi... [FishbowlDC]

Sara Horowitz on What 'Obamacare' Means to Freelancers - Posted December 12, 2012
When Sara Horowitz was hired as a lawyer, she was made an independent contractor and wasn't given any benefits. Since then, she's created Working Today, a nonprofit for uniting freela... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Sara Horowitz on What 'Obamacare' Means to Freelancers - Posted December 12, 2012
When Sara Horowitz was hired as a lawyer, she was made an independent contractor and wasn't given any benefits. Since then, she's created Working Today, a nonprofit for uniting freela... [FishbowlNY]

Tweet Punch Out! Watch Romney Robot Give Obama The Old One-Two! - Posted November 6, 2012
Are you a Republican who is sick of annoying political posts and sites predicting an Obama win?
Check out this site, where Romney is definitely in the lead - and landing punches left and right!
Tweet Punch Out is powered by users tweets. Ev... [AllTwitter]

Obama Makes Final Push On Twitter - Posted November 6, 2012
In the most hotly contested election in recent U.S. history, American voters today are deciding who will be president of the United States.
Both have used Twitter in recent months to bolster support - and today is no different, with ... [AllTwitter]

Who Will You Vote For? Tweetcast Knows. Maybe. - Posted November 5, 2012
Unsure of who to vote for in tomorrow's U.S. Presidential election? Well, as we mentioned before: you are what you tweet! And Tweetcast may just know your mind better than you do!
Either way, ... [AllTwitter]

Top 10 Funniest Debate Tweets - Posted October 22, 2012
On October 22, 2012, President Barack Obama joined Governor Mitt Romney for the third presidential debate of the season, moderated by CBS' Bob Schieffer. While professional comedians were lighting up the second screen that night with their Tweets, President Obama may have delivered the best line of the nig... [AllFacebook]

Obama May Have Celebrity Backers, But Romney Has...A Squirrel? - Posted October 19, 2012
With the presidential election looming ever closer, campaign ads, debate analysis, poll numbers, and speculation as to who's really on top continue to cascade into our living rooms, offices, and social gatherings via every media outlet imaginable. How does anyone really know which candidate ha... [FishbowlDC]

Talked About On Twitter: #Binders Of Women - Posted October 17, 2012
If you caught the debate last night and have spent any time online today, you undoubtedly have seen many posts poking fun at Romney's "binders of women" comment.
Well, Twitter went all out (as expected) and we have some favorites to share.
When asked about pay ... [AllTwitter]

Talked About On Twitter: #ObamaCampaignIn3Words and #RomneyCampaignIn3Words - Posted October 8, 2012
Those crazy bipartisan twitterers are at it again - and this time they're throwing down with dueling hashtags: #ObamaCampaignIn3Words and #RomneyCampaignIn3Words.
Who wins? No one really, but they're fun to read.
Will we ever get enough of the bipartisan bashing on Twitter? Probably... [10,000 Words]

10.3 Million Tweets Sent During Last Night's Presidential Debates - Posted October 4, 2012
President Obama and Mitt Romney met in Denver last night to verbally duke it out, and Twitter was listening. Between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. EDT, users sent 10.3 million tweets related to the Presidential debate.
The tweets started to really spike ... [AllTwitter]

Can Halloween Mask Sales Predict the Next President? - Posted September 28, 2012
It would appear that imitation is indeed the greatest form of flattery, especially when it comes to Halloween costume sales in an election year.
According to this article in the Sa... [FishbowlDC]

Obama Portrayed As Average Beer-Loving Guy - Posted September 18, 2012
As the presidential election nears, both campaigns seem to be trying to hammer home the idea that their candidates truly understand the lives and plights of average Americans. While Romney's campaign tries to down... [FishbowlDC]

Will Americans Buy into Energy-Efficient Cars? - Posted August 28, 2012
The American public has had a long and complicated relationship with the automobile.
Cars once symbolized freedom, rebellion and adventure, and the open road reached out to all of us: rebellious teenagers, vacationing suburban families, slick hot rod enthusiasts, rootless counter-cultu... [FishbowlDC]

President Uses Twitter, Breathes Oxygen Like Other Humans - Posted August 7, 2012
In case you wondered how the world's most visible face interacts with the followers of his office's official Twitter feed, the White House has released this in-no-way-heavy-hitting video documenting a few moments in the life of @WhiteHouse. While we can't pretend to be terribly impressed, we will admit that the President... [FishbowlDC]

Closing In On A Million Open Government Data Sets - Posted June 20, 2012
A million data sets. That's the number of government data sets out there on the web that we have closed in on.
"The question is, when you have that many, how do you search for them, find them, coordinate activity between governments, bring in NGOs," says James A. Hendler, Tetherless World Senior... [semanticweb.com]

Obama's Twitter Popularity Surges After Support For Gay Marriage - Posted May 10, 2012
Obama went on national TV on Wednesday to publicly show his support for gay marriage. This made him the first sitting president to do so, and caused quite the stir among both mainstream and new media types.
Twitter quickly became a sounding board for any and all opinions about gay marriage and... [AllTwitter]

Word to Semantic Web Startups: The JOBS Act Is On - Posted March 28, 2012
If there's one thing the Semantic Web arena is full of, it is start-ups. In fact, the slew of creative and innovative ideas out there coming from young companies is one of the reasons for the first Start-Up Competition to be held at the Semantic Tech & Business... [semanticweb.com]

A Marriage Made For The Global, Digital Economy - Posted February 27, 2012
At the recent SemTech Berlin conference, husband-and-wife team Michael Trevor McDonald and Kim Chandler McDonald, CTO and Executive VP, respectively, of KimmiC, led a session that discussed a marriage of a different sort: that between the Semantic Web and the user interface. The session was described as providing t... [semanticweb.com]

Michelle Obama Joins Her Husband On Twitter - Posted January 13, 2012
Michelle Obama has finally signed up for her very own Twitter account, tweeting to support her husband's reelection efforts in November.
She's no Charlie Sheen, ... [AllTwitter]

Making a Link Between Federal Agency Strategies and IT Expenditures - Posted November 21, 2011
What do you get when you join up machine-readable representations of federal government agencies' strategic plans and spending on IT resources? Expressing these as Linked Data adds value in that it becomes easier to correlate and mash up information, and even to determine how or whether technology implementations are helping to... [semanticweb.com]

Obama Administration Is Asking Americans To "Tweet For Jobs" - Posted October 5, 2011
In an effort to get as much public support for his jobs bill as possible, President Obama and his administration are asking Americans to take to Twitter to pressure Congress to act on the bill.
Using the "Tweet For Jobs" tool, Americans can tweet to their Re... [AllTwitter]

Could You Run A Country Using Only Twitter? - Posted July 7, 2011
In light of Wednesday's Twitter Town Hall, I started wondering just how useful Twitter could be to politicians and world leaders in the future. I started creating a hypothetical world in which a leader could only use Twitter to interact with citizens, lead a military and perform diplomatic relations... and the... [AllTwitter]

White House Creates "Rapid Response" Twitter Account - Posted May 25, 2011
The avatar in this article might not look like one from an official White House online presence, but it is. It's the face of the new Director of Progressive Media & Online Response, Jesse Lee, who will be tweeting in an official capacity from @jesseclee44, in the hopes of pr... [AllTwitter]

Paying Too Much for FOIA - Posted April 18, 2011
A new article from InfoVegan looks at the costs of the Freedom of Information Act and how those costs will only continue to rise if Data.gov and other open government sites go dark: "FOIA is one of those transparency things that sounds like a good idea, but in the end turns... [semanticweb.com]

Top 5 Ways to Follow Obama's State of the Union on Twitter - Posted January 25, 2011
The State of the Union may not have the same great commercials as the Super Bowl, but it's still an annual television event that gets people talking. Whether you're tuning in because you genuinely care about Obama's vision for America, because you just want to sound intelligent at your next... [AllTwitter]

Obama to Answer Twitter Questions After State of the Union - Posted January 24, 2011
The State of the Union Address will be on Tuesday, but many of us in the industry are looking forward to the "social media" state of the union Q&A Obama will deliver on Thursday. The President will take questions from social media sources including Twitter,... [AllTwitter]

Obama in Haiku: Real-Time Twitter Updates of the President's Speech - Posted January 13, 2011
If you weren't able to tune in last night to listen to President Obama's Tucson speech, the Editor-in-Chief of the National Journal has you covered: he live-tweeted updates from the speech as-it-happened last night. The result is a series of h... [AllTwitter]

Does Using Twitter Make the White House "Transparent"? - Posted December 22, 2010
The White House is stepping up its social media presence - possibly in response to the strength of Republicans on Twitter and elsewhere online - by holding Twitter question periods. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered a questions specifically about Twitter a... [AllTwitter]

Politico's Allen: 'The Challenge is Breaking Through the White Noise' - Posted November 18, 2010
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During the Paley Center for Media's International Council forum on digital media and politics in New York on Wednesday, ... [FishbowlDC]

What Are You Reading? - Posted April 6, 2009
Oh blogs, blogs, blogs! You're ruining the news market with your free information and your constant updating. So what are you talking about that's getting everyone so hyped up they just have to pass your stories along?
According to Pew Research Center... [MediaJobsDaily]

651,000 Jobs Lost In February - Posted March 6, 2009
The official totals for February are out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, and they are worse than previously thought. Unemployment is now at 8.1 percent, its highest rate in 25 years. A Bloomberg survey predicted unemployment would remain below 8 percent in February. Looks like they were wrong.
Estimates put... [MediaJobsDaily]

Morning Reading List, 11.25.08 - Posted November 25, 2008
Good Morning Washington. What DC restaurant is featured above? Think you know? Email us with your best guess. AND: Join us after the jump to find out if you guessed our last contest correctly."
Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Morning Reading List, 11.25.08 - Posted November 25, 2008
Good Morning Washington. What DC restaurant is featured above? Think you know? Email us with your best guess. AND: Join us after the jump to find out if you guessed our last contest correctly."
Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning... [FishbowlNY]

Obama, Jon Hamm and Leo DiCaprio Are GQ Men of the Year - Posted November 18, 2008
GQ Magazine, always looking to one-up the newsweeklies because it as a rule doesn't break news, came out with its Man of the Year award. Oh sorry, they're calling them Men of the Year. Way to waffle, GQ.
Of course, first up was ... [FishbowlLA]

Edwards Off Short List for VP: Enquirer? - Posted July 23, 2008
John Edwards got his hand stuck in somebody's cookie jar and the result may mean no VP slot for Obama. The L.A. Times, of all places, picked up the story that no one would touch because it originated at, yikes!, the ... [FishbowlLA]

Jim Rainey Upbraids Political Reporters, Invents A Word - Posted June 3, 2008
LAT reporter James Rainey coins the term "discordulum," an invented region of the brain of any presidential campaign reporter which is devoted to recognizing conflict.
"From this hyper-developed brain center come stories about the certain demise of some politician... [FishbowlLA]

HuffPo: Stars Align for Democratic Candidates - Posted April 21, 2008
In case you're a Philly transplant with a mail-in ballot and only three working brain cells, HuffPo helps you decide whom to vote for with this handy-dandy guide to which stars are endorsing which candidates.
Obama is supported by Jennifer Aniston, Sam J... [FishbowlLA]

FBLA Goes to the Party: Weisberg Book Party - Posted February 21, 2008
Slate's Jacob Weisberg read from his new book The Bush Tragedy at a Domino-sponored shindig in Brentwood. 300 guests stormed Arianna Huffington's mansion house. (Or home, as the invitations read.)
... [FishbowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted February 20, 2008
Politics-As-High-School: We've been loving the Top of the Ticket political blog for all the tasty morsels of minutiae it serves up. This Don Frederick post is especially fun: Replace the words "Clinton," "Obama" and "... [FishbowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted January 11, 2008
Johnny Grant Memorialized: Fittingly, a memorial was held over Johnny Grant's star on the Walk of Fame.
... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 01.08.08 - Posted January 8, 2008
Happy New Hampshire Primary Day Washington! On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivered our first State of the Union. In 1992, Bush 41 puked on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi, and, in 2006, Tom DeLay resigned as House Majority Leader.
Happy 41st R Kelly!
(Hat tip: MicCheckRadio)
Quickly navigate Morning Reading... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Morning Reading List, 01.08.08 - Posted January 8, 2008
Happy New Hampshire Primary Day Washington! On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivered our first State of the Union. In 1992, Bush 41 puked on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi, and, in 2006, Tom DeLay resigned as House Majority Leader.
Happy 41st R Kelly!
(Hat tip: MicCheckRadio)
Quickly navigate Morning Reading... [FishbowlNY]

Bierut Sounding Absolutely Scrumptuous on WNYC Today - Posted July 5, 2007
The man who seems to have no shortage of fabulous ties (one seen here with our blog-mama Laurel Touby), Michael Bierut appeared today on "The Leonard Lopate Show" with gu... [AgencySpy]

Morning Reading List, 04.13.07 - Posted April 13, 2007
Good morning Washington.
You think NBC should not have dropped Imus.
From a tipster: "check out sudarsan r's front page first person piece in today's washpost... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Morning Reading List, 04.13.07 - Posted April 13, 2007
Good morning Washington.
You think NBC should not have dropped Imus.
From a tipster: "check out sudarsan r's front page first person piece in today's washpost... [FishbowlNY]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted February 16, 2007
In this week's episode, the First Dogs frolicked in the snow, Obama wins the little discussed playgroud primary and President Bush loves teasing the poolers.
"The pool enjoyed a brief respite from the icy weather when we walked through the White House to the motorcade past a small fragment of spring: dozens... [morningmedianewsfeed]

This Week In Pool Reports - Posted February 16, 2007
In this week's episode, the First Dogs frolicked in the snow, Obama wins the little discussed playgroud primary and President Bush loves teasing the poolers.
"The pool enjoyed a brief respite from the icy weather when we walked through the White House to the motorcade past a small fragment of spring: dozens... [FishbowlNY]